Category: ASC News

As COVID-19 cases fall across the U.S., President Joe Biden is making plans for how to move forward.

An Evergreen, Colo.-based physician was sentenced March 1 to two years in federal prison for accepting thousands of dollars in kickbacks from Insys Therapeutics, a pharmaceutical company.

Gastroenterology procedures are some of the most common procedures performed at ASCs, according to data company Definitive Healthcare.

On average, gastroenterology makes up 32 percent of an ASC’s case mix, according to VMG Health’s “Multi-Specialty ASC Benchmarking Study” for 2022. 

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency recently issued a rare “shields up” warning to the U.S. private sector, including healthcare, based on the increased cyber threat posed by the Russian government.

Patrick Titus, a former physician based in Delaware, was sentenced to 20 years in prison March 1 after being convicted of illegal opioid distribution last year.

Lowell General Hospital and Shields Health Care have opened a new ASC in Chelmsford, Mass., called the Surgery Center of the Merrimack Valley, with a goal of serving over 15,000 patients by 2026.

Envision Healthcare has 720 operating rooms, the most of any ASC corporation surveyed by data company Definitive Healthcare, and reports more than $266 million in Medicare charges.

Panhandle Outpatient Surgery Center in Pensacola, Fla., performed its first robotic procedure Feb. 28.

There has been a shift away from quality and relative value unit-based bonuses for physicians, according to Physicians Thrive’s 2022 “Physician Compensation Report.”